Garb Plotting for 2011

[act2redux]

I need to:
~finish my victorian blouse and hat for the Time Traveler's Ball next weekend
~ generate clothing and some props for a Steampunk event in Jan.
~ take apart a basic cloak and make a fleece lining w/ waterproof interlining (I'm SO 
    tired of being wet and cold on rainy days
~ take apart my bodice from last season- I could have sworn I washed that canvas
     interlining before I cut it!)
~embroider/bead the paned sleeves of my court gown ....I'm feeling the need for a title
     I think!
~design and make a Medeval gown (gates of hell variety, I think)-Costume College '11

Mmmm...probably enough for now...

[Cilean]

Well getting hurt and then waiting for surgery and having surgery and now recovering has killed 2010 for me. However I do get to plan next year because it will include our 20th Anniversary and we are going to have a Renewal of Vows Celebration.

What I am looking to do for next year:

For Myself:
2 Tourney Gowns
1 Square Necked Smock
1 High Necked Smock with Embroidery
1 Pair of Bodies based on extant examples made from silk taffeta
1 Farthingale made from silk taffeta
1 Pair of Bodies forTourney that is made from lavender linen
1 roped petticoat, made from lavender linen
1 Elizabethan Jacket
1 Skirt in Shot Dupioni Blue/Purple with black velvet trim
1 Ropa
1 Italian Gown
New Grey Gown for Renewal

I will be using this gown for my 12th Night as well.  As well so I think a journey to LA Fabric District might be in order, I hope to get Lavender Taffeta for the PoB and the Farthingale.
I am planning on doing machine/and hand embroidery for the forepart and sleeves, if I get to work now I might do enough to make a kirtle and who nows?!!

For my Husband (He cut back some food intake and lost 40lbs-wah):
2 Tourney Outfits
2 New Shirts
New Black outfit with grey or blue as accent for Renewal

Eldest Boy:
2 New Shirts
2 Complete outfits -He keeps growing

Youngest Boy
The Same He also keeps growing

Eldest Boy's Girlfriend
She is a size 2
Smock
PoB
Farthingale
Petticoat
Kirtle
Gown
Find her shoes to get
Coif and Hat

I perhaps will be helping Mom make a Ropa as well.

Phew I am exhausted already!

LOL

Cilean

[LadyStitch]

Ok, here is an update on my Sewing list for 2011

•   Remade Flamingo pants
•   Lady Stitch Outfit
•   New Sir Roland outfit
•   Sewing kit pouch (UFO- 3 months)
•   A Fleece Lined Cloak for SIL (UFO-6 years)
•   Dicken's vest for Roe (UFO-9 months)
•   PP new vest
•   New Bowling shirt for PP (UFO-1 year)
•   Nephew's Knight outfit (UFO-2 years)
•   Pleated skirt for me (UFO 1- year)
•   Patchwork skirt for lady stitch (UFO-6 months)
•   The patchwork leather cloak for PP (UFO of 9 years)
•   Little cavalier hat for Quizzik
•   A vintage style dress for me
•   Baby Bibs (On hand Gifts)
•   Finish that Tudor style Purple velvet dress (UFO of 12 years)
•   Strawberry child's dress (UFO-1 year)

There is alot of UFO's on there, since that is my personal challange this year, but I hope to get a good dent in this very soon. 

[gem]

Thanks for bumping this, LS!  I had forgotten you'd started this thread--and totally forgotten I'd posted in it!  LOL   The good news is that my list is the same as it was 6 weeks ago:

--Purple Kirtle from Simplicity 2621
--Much Ado military jacket (adapting Simplicity 2333/the new Mad Hatter pattern)
--Promenade kirtle &c
--keep working on the embroidery for the smock

[isabelladangelo]

For 2011:

• Finish the embroidered Chemise.  I have a sleeve done!
• The Gray Elizabethan with the pink forepart
• Catherine Parr's Portrait gown with real fur lining
• Finally cut out the Spanish Surcote out of the pretty black velvet with silver embroidery
• A red velvet Elizabeth with a blackworked forepart
• An Elizabethan pair of stays
• A Red flannel petticoat because I need one

That's it for the Renaissance/Medieval stuff next year.  I also need to get some 18th c and early 19th c stuff in there as well as a LOT of Steampunk and Victorian. 

[Athena]

Gold and teal (love that color!) brocade bodice and overskirt/underskirt in complimentary colors, already in progress.
Detachable sleeves
Partlet
Bumroll
Gold brocade Elizabethan gown from Simplicity 8881, aka the Shakespeare in Love gown.

[Kate XXXXXX]

Other than the 18th C stuff already started, and a couple of customer projects in the planning stages, I have nothing concrete after February.  Things never quite go to plan in this house, however...

[LadySeasan]

None, and I mean none of my garb that I wore this faire season fits anymore. Which means that I am going to need new everything! My lovely pink and green gown that I gushed so much about, no longer fits, and I can't take it in anymore?

So for 2011 I need

-1 new nobles ensemble
-2 new pirate ensembles

For the Steampunk Worlds Fair

-2 Victorian outfits, and a ballgown

and a crapload of other stuff!

[Adriana Rose]

I only have a handfull of new projects yelling at me this coming year, I cant do too much because my work stuff comes first and that has been put off because of having my shoulder fixed in November.

So I have
Nice over dresses for mom ( I'm thinking of a variation of Italian)

Maybe attacking a new bodice- my leopard print really doesnt fit anymore and I only wore the blasted thing twice!

And in May a bunch of new breeches, shirts and a few vests for my little guy, he got 2 seasons out of his other stuff since I made it big!

I have some stuff that needs to get taken in and some others that need to be fixed including a pretty faux fur caplet that I found in The Great Storage Unit clean I am going to line it in ploar fleece rather than the satin it has now

[PrincessSara]

gem, how HA are you going with the kirtle?  And is it going to be Tudor or Elizabethan?  I've been studying the hell out of Tudor kirtles lately and I have some research stuff I can show you if you're interested in skirt patterns.

I want to sew something, but I have no idea what.  The full Tudor noble ensemble seems to be getting nowhere since I can't fit anything on myself and I can't find a fitting partner; also, I'm not really that talented at sewing and this is a really big project.  I need something that isn't too complicated, is pretty, doesn't take weeks of research, and would look good on my figure.  Something to get my sewing confidence back.

[gem]

Sara, I am going NOT HA and definitely not fussy with the kirtle--because the goal is to get it DONE!! I'm making the bodice from Simplicity 2621. I haven't decided on a skirt pattern yet. I'm tempted to try something with gores, but again I don't want to talk myself out of actually making this. What have you got?

As for you... what about going middle class? You could start with a corset like Simplicity 2621 out of a really pretty fabric, add a nice full cartridge pleated skirt & bumroll, and then add a jacket or a fitted English gown. The key is finding a style that is more forgiving with the fit (so a jacket vs say a doublet bodice).

Or you could try a curved-front opening gown. I'll come back with better links tomorrow, but there are a couple in the in-progress and finished projects thread, and they are *adorable!* I have a curvy figure like yours, and I found this surprisingly easy to fit on myself, and if I hadn't gotten sick for a week, I'd have finished mine last fall.

[Artemisia]

The Evil Queen for Wicked Faire 2011
A couple of 1940's and 1950's outfits
New gamurra, venetian and florentine gowns for Pennsic 40
One or two new pirate ensembles for faire season
Post here more often

I'm also giving myself a fabriholic sewing challenge. I must go through my fabric stash and issue each 4yrd length or more a pattern or design. I saw something similar on Jo's blog (Bridges on the Body): http://bridgesonthebody.blogspot.com/2009/03/ground-rules.html

[DonaCatalina]

I still need to make the pants that I was planning to finish in December.
Add some oversleeves to a dress.
My daughter still hasn't come up with fabric for her German gown, so
Then maybe a new underskirt or two.

[raevyncait]

*get my undercorset sewn together (it's already cut & pinned, except for the boning channels)
*Irish dress - color to be determined after I get my MacDuff tartan piece of fabric for a forepart to the underskirt
*Underskirt for Irish dress
*another dress, probably something similar to Iris & Rose's (looks like an Irish dress, but has a stomacher piece on the bodice)
*new bloomers (probably something in flannel to keep my legs warm at colder festivals)

[LadyStitch]

depending on how the next couple week go, I may need to add another major project to the list.  The other Flamingo brother may be attending Scarby this year.  I can not let one of them be in finery and the other in  less finery can I? 

Oh and add the Father Christmas coat for the PP.  Why oh why do I let myself be talked into these things?